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corrupted, ppl. a.|kəˈrʌptɪd|
[f. corrupt v. + -ed.]
Made or become corrupt (in various senses); = corrupt ppl. a.
1563in Strype Ann. Ref. I. xxxv. 393 That corrupted means were used for my delivery. 1581Act 23 Eliz. c. 8. §1, Yf the same corrupted waxe shall happen to bee solde. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. iii. 57 In the corrupted currants of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shoue by Iustice. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 320 This corrupted traitor. 1699Bentley Phal. xii. 327 The present copy of Scylax, one of the most corrupted books in the world. 1731Swift On his Death, They argue no corrupted mind In him. 1768Johnson Pref. to Shaks. Wks. IX. 291 The emendation of corrupted passages. 1807J. E. Smith Phys. Bot. 500 The sap of corrupted wood. 1876J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. I. i. i. 44 A pagan, who had some notion of Christianity in a corrupted form.
Hence coˈrruptedly adv., coˈrruptedness.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God iii. ii. 109 The senat..judged ten yeares together most partially, and most corruptedly. 1648W. Jenkyn Blind Guide iv. 90 Our native corruptednesse. 1694Sloane in Phil. Trans. XVIII. 62 Fowls..called Cuntur, and by the Spaniards corruptedly Condor. 1817Bentham Parl. Ref. Catech. (1818) 73 The Judges..are thus kept..in a state..of..corruptedness. 1851G. S. Faber Many Mansions (1862) 381 note, References to Pagan Mythology, which sprang corruptedly out of Old Patriarchism. |